Four decades of rice water productivity in Bangladesh: A spatio-temporal analysis of district level panel data

Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-64

  Alauddin, Mohammad ^a   Amarasinghe, Upali A ^b   Sharma, Bharat R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Agro ecological zones; Consumptive water use; Fossil fuel; Groundwater dependency; Sustainability; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899155560     PISSN: 03135926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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